A Puzzling Element in the Notion of Thinking.

London, Oxford University Press, 1958. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "The Proceedings of the British Academy", Vol. XLIV, 1958. A few nicks and light miscolouring to front wrapper. Ex libris pasted on to vero of title page. Internally fine and clean. Offprint of Ryle's influential work on the notion of thinking.Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976) was an immensely influential British philosopher, who represented the ordinary language philosophers so strongly influenced by Wittgenstein. He was also greatly influenced by Bertrand Russell and his theory of descriptions and the conception of analysis embodied in that. Influenced by the idea of misleading expressions, which can be sorted out only with the help of logic, Ryle establishes his view of philosophy as cartography. Just like the inhabitants of a space on earth can talk about that space to the cartographer, so the ordinary user of a language can talk to the philosopher. However, in both cases the practical knowledge of the ordinary user must be transformed into the universal terms of the expert in order for him to say anything meaningful.…